vagabond blog: thoughts from the saddle

October 3, 2012

If you want it done right…

Guess I’m getting hard to please in my old age. I know there are a couple good roasters in this town but it seems like I can never get my hands on any coffee that I find “exceptional.” I’ve had a couple bags of good Ethiopian and Burundi, but otherwise it has all been very average. I’m also a bit disappointed that I can never seem to buy it as fresh as I would like. I have gone to the shops on “roasting day” and have not been able to buy any coffee roasted on “that day.” Everything on the shelves is a week or more old. I understand why shops have a single day each week that they roast, but I guess all the freshest stuff is going out to their wholesale customers because I’m not seeing it on the shelves.

Since I have become such a difficult customer I can only think of one solution: return to roasting! I always knew I would, but now I am fairly certain it will happen sooner than I had planned. When? Where? How? What capacity? I have no answer to those questions right now, however I have begun window shopping for another roaster and hope to have something by Spring. I may start out with another 2-3 kilo machine and see where it goes. At any rate, I’m looking forward to “smelling the smoke” as my friend Chris says.
Shep

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I have been riding motorcycles since age 7 and roasting coffee since 2002. Motorhead Coffee came about as a merger of those two passions. When I owned a wholesale coffee roasting business, I provided “Motorhead Coffee” to various groups, rallies and businesses in the motorcycle industry and the name just stuck.

This space is not just about coffee or bikes, but about the freedom of the road, the pleasure of the ride...and the desire to stop living someone else's life & and pursue your own passions.